Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A herd of horses from which ranch hands select their mounts.
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- noun A
herd ofhorses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected.
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- noun the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The horse herd accompanying a trail drive was known as the remuda pronounced remoother in Texas.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The horse herd accompanying a trail drive was known as a remuda pronounced remoother in Texas.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Quinn, the man who had watched over the remuda of horses at night, had left for a better life in an MFA program.
My Lesbian Western, chapter one Meg Pokrass 2011
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A fierce and independent group numbering in the thousands with a remuda of fifteen thousand horses and camping in Palo Duro Canyon—the Quahadis—was beyond anything they knew or could guess at.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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All trailed by the enormous horse remuda, the source of their wealth.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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All that remained of the remuda were fifty horses and nine mules.12 Mackenzie was furious.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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One might think that an entire human settlement consisting of several hundred lodges, with large numbers of women and children and old men, many tons of equipment and provisions and supplies, along with a remuda of three thousand horses and mules, an unspecified number of cattle, and dogs, would be an easy enough quarry.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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This kept the remuda in place until the men could rope and saddle their horses.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Behind him was the chuckwagon driven by the cook, with the horse wrangler and the remuda on the left or right.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The personnel consisted of sixteen to eighteen cowboys, a cook and his wagon, and a horse wrangler for the remuda.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
fbharjo commented on the word remuda
Why change horses?
May 31, 2007